If Dogs Run Free Bob Dylan
Words and music Bob Dylan
Released on New Morning (1970), and debuted live during the fall 2000 tour.
Tabbed by Eyolf Østrem
Dylan goes Jazz!
Here follows first a tab of the bass part in the first instrumental verse,
with chord suggestions above. Since the song is basically defined by a bass
progression with chromatic alterations, and heavily colorated chords above
that, the indicated chords are not what is being played ? it's a synthesis
of what may have been played by some or the other of the musicians, or rather:
a simplified picture of what may have been in their heads while playing. It
works, sort of, but especially at the end of the second and third lines below,
the chords are definitely suggestions only.
Chords:
C#o x45353
Bm7-5 x2323x
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G C C#o G
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C C#o G7 C7 Bm7-5 E7
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Am D G7 /f Em7 /Bb A D7
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G C C#o
If dogs run free, then why not we
[G]Across the swooping plain?
C C#o
My ears hear a symphony
[G]Of two mules,[C7] trains and [Bm7-5]rain.[E7]
[Am] The best is always [D]yet to come,
[G7]That's what they ex[Em7]plain to me.[A7] [D7]
G C C#o
Just do your thing, you'll be king,
[G] If dogs run free.
If dogs run free, why not me
Across the swamp of time?
My mind weaves a symphony
And tapestry of rhyme.
Oh, winds which rush my tale to thee
So it may flow and be,
To each his own, it's all unknown,
If dogs run free.
If dogs run free, then what must be,
Must be, and that is all.
True love can make a blade of grass
Stand up straight and tall.
In harmony with the cosmic sea,
True love needs no company,
It can cure the soul, it can make it whole,
If dogs run free.
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